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Global Reddit Meetup Day
It’s that time of year folks! Unallocated Space is proud to host the 3rd Annual Global Reddit Meetup event for Baltimore! The party starts this Saturday, June 23rd @ 1:00PM. We need: BYOB Burgers/Dogs/Buns/Food Your fat, lazy nerd asses to get out of your ass-imprinted computer chairs for a few hours to attend awesomeness. We…
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Seeking Lab Enthusiasts
Continuing with the trend of vastly improving the network infrastructure at Unallocated Space, we are now searching for anyone, someone, a couple of people–to be involved in building out our lab environment. Labs that we would like to see include: Malware Analysis, Forensics, Honeypots, Pentesting, Hardening, and many others! Unfortunately, the few building the network…
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Windows 8 – Secure Overwrite
In the ongoing battle of DOD 5220 and NIST SP800-88 and which secure overwrite procedure is the most suited to ensure no keyboard nor lab recovery of data stored on magnetic media; Microsoft has made further improvements to the Windows format utility to help make the choice that much easier. With Windows 7, Microsoft changed…
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Is this exe file malicious?
A really quick way to determine whether or not an executable is malicious is the location from which it is executing. While further investigation is always necessary, you can usually give a quick cursory glance to the file and determine that there is something malicious about it just by where it resides. Windows, like Unix…
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Basic best practices for Windows security
This blog post is intended for those whom are basic to moderately advanced (A+) users of Windows. I know some of you will sit here and say, “Windows!? How can you secure that!? Microsoft doesn’t know how to secure anything!” The reality of the situation is that since 2002, Microsoft has been at the forefront…
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Network Upgrades!
Greetings all! If you haven’t been to the space in a while you may not have noticed the major upgrades going on at the space. We’ve been hard at work making some core upgrades to the network that will make us more capable of handling network pen testing, hosting files for talks, and hosting services…
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The Hacker Carnival at Annapolis Junction
Tomorrow from 300PM until 800PM Raytheon will be putting on a recruiting event dubbed Hacker Carnival! It will feature a mini-CTF and other fun hackery types of events including lockpicking! Make sure you stop on by and test your skills.
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Code Hero goodness here at Unallocated Space
I ran across a great project on Kickstarter yesterday called Code Hero. From the page: Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games so you can learn to code while you play with a Code Gun that shoots Javascript in Unity 3D! Created by Alex Peake and his lads at Primer…
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World IPv6 Launch Day and UAS’ IPv6 Transition
Hey everyone! In preparation for World IP Launch Day (http://www.worldipv6launch.org/), Unallocated Space has begun its migration of core network services to a dual stack infrastructure. What this means is that we will have simultaneous access to both the IPv4 and IPv6 internet. This transition will not just be about moving the network over. Our core…
